copy Linux/OpenBSD's Xorg settings?

Marat N.Afanasyev amarat at li.ru
Mon Feb 3 09:30:47 UTC 2014


M Barrassed wrote:
> I've been using FreeBSD for over 12 years, but having a hard time getting Xorg working on a Lenovo W520 Thinkpad.
>
> Arch Linux, Ubuntu, and OpenBSD all install their Xorg configs automatically on this laptop, working great.  But no such luck with FreeBSD.
>
> Doing these steps exactly:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
>
> But when I do the `Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro` step, neither keyboard nor mouse/touchpad are recognized, and the resolutions settings look way off.
>
> MY QUESTION:
>
> How can I copy the Xorg settings from my OpenBSD or Linux installation into my FreeBSD 10 installation?
>
> The others don't seem to have an obvious xorg.conf file anywhere, so I'm stumped for where else to look.
>
> Thank you and sorry for the dumb question.
>
> - M. Barrassed
>
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try to add

Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"

to ServerFlags in your xorg.conf.new. probably yuo've hald misconfigured 
or not running

-- 
SY, Marat

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